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To: EternalVigilance

Under what specific Presidential power would these facilities be shut down?

Executive orders outlining what the President determines SHOULD BE the “Supreme Law of the Land” is not a Constitutionally defined power.

Do you believe in an Imperial Executive branch?

Apparently you do.


66 posted on 06/11/2012 10:35:56 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

A presidential finding is distinct from an executive order. The former spells out the president’s understanding of what his duty requires. The second instructs those under his authority in what they must do to carry out the law.

No, I don’t believe in an imperial presidency. I believe that every officer of government must do the first thing that the founders of this republic said government is for: to equally protect the God-given, unalienable right to life of the individual person.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men...”


72 posted on 06/11/2012 10:45:44 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The saving of the republic begins the day conservatives stop supporting what they say they hate.)
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